A Lot Riding on Lee Road Press for Mercury Print

A lot of hope is riding on the Prosper 5000 XL sitting in Mercury Print Production’s Lee Road plant. The Rochester (NY) commercial printer is banking on the massive investment into the digital color inkjet printing press to help it be more cost competitive in the educational book industry.

And Eastman Kodak Co., the maker of the Prosper, is counting on the presses to help lift it out of the chasm in which it has languished in recent years.

The price tag—upwards of $5 million, including all the finishing equipment to go with the Prosper—made it the biggest investment in Mercury’s history